Proportional Map Of The World

Hajime Narukawa used a new map main making method called AuthaGraph that divides the globe into 96 triangles. The distortion is the result of the Mercator map which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world It gives the right shapes of countries but at the cost of distorting sizes in favour of. Areas like Greenland Antarctica and Africa are all distorted on traditional Mercator maps because its difficult if not impossible to replicate the globe in two dimensions. For example if we show the value of unemployment on a proportional symbol map of the UK Dundee would have bigger visual importance then Highland if their unemployment values were so eg 35 in Dundee 1 in Highland.

True Scale Map Of The World Shows How Big Countries Really Are

This infographic created by Alberto Lucas Lopéz for the South China Morning Post shows the relative size of speaker population for all the languages that have over 50 million speakers based.

Proportional Map Of The World. There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages but more than half of the worlds population speaks one of just 23 languages. Explore the world as youve never seen it before. You may not know this but the world map youve been using since say kindergarten is pretty wonky.

The World in 43 Maps at the same Scale. The Robinson isnt as extreme however taking the form of a much more gentle oval. These maps cover all of the earths land surface except some tiny islands and it doesnt matter whether you look at South East England Japan Nevada Uruguay or Outer Mongolia the scales are instantly comparable.

The Mercator projection map is the most popular but it is also riddled with inaccuracies. The heading in the Contents says it all. Indeed only a globe has the ability to illustrate the earths characteristics precisely.

Proportional Map of the Worlds Largest Languages. It was used by both Rand McNally and the National. The world map we accept today known as the Mercator map made in 1569 by geographer Gerardus Mercator largely misreports the sizes of Greenland Africa and Antarctica.

Mercator Misconceptions Clever Map Shows The True Size Of Countries